I've been having a lot of anxiety this week.
A few days ago I rode my bike to the park, and stopped for a lavender doughnut on the way.
Then I had a beautiful moment of calm in the park, in a haze of lavender sugar, and I came up with a few questions to help me navigate all of this.
Maybe you could use them too?
Where can you say no? Slow down? Lower expectations?
Where can you do things differently, in ways that honour how you are feeling?
What do you need right now?
How can you process some of your feelings to create even a small bit of space for yourself?
Stay there with these questions as long as you need.
A lot of us seem to have an unconscious goal of “getting back to normal” and working on that goal isn’t going to lead to the future we want.
So, instead of trying to get back to normal, what if we stay present where we are and put our efforts into really tending to what is here?
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